literary storytelling". Irvine Welsh called it "truly Zeitgeist writing". Tales from the Mall won the Guardian Not the Booker Prize in 2012 and was a finalist in the Saltire Society Book of the Year Award and the Creative Scotland Writer of the Year Award in the same year. Nina X Morrison's seventh book of fiction, Nina X, was published by Fleet, an imprint of Little Brown, on 4 April 2019. It won the 2019 Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Prize, and tells the story of "an extraordinary young woman who is raised from birth in 'ideological purity' in a commune-cult and then escapes into our modern world." The Guardian review of Nina X stated that "this is a book that explores many of the same themes as its predecessor – the boundaries of the self, the clash between extremes of historical attempts at collectivism and the hyper-individualism of contemporary society, the legacy of the (false) idealism of the 60s and 70s." How to Survive Everything How to Survive Everything is Morrison's 8th novel, published by Contraband on 1 March 2021. The darkly comic thriller concerns a teenager abducted by her father who believes the world is ending. Of the book, The Scotsman said, "A terrific and gripping story… a masterclass in storytelling". The Herald said, "a bold and compelling book by a writer whose creative risks … pay huge dividends". Themes and style Morrison was described by Greg Gordon in The Times as the "Chronicler of the broken dreams and spiritual desolation that lies beneath the surface gloss of advanced capitalist society". According to scholar Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Morrison's fiction and essays "show the author’s overwhelming, constant concern with the place of the human in a Globalised world. Morrison defines the globalised world as a world taken over by American-style consumerism and its attendant rampant commodification of everything including the human." Pittin-Hedon claims that Morrison's writing "raises issues not only related to the creative process, or the process of writing fiction, but also to anthropology and sociology." She cites that he shares concerns with the postmodern sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. "The mass manufacturing of individuality" she claims is "a topic which is at the heart of Morrison’s Project." For Morrison's first five books he practiced "experiential writing" – throwing himself into new experiences in order to write about them "from the inside", including becoming a swinger, a secret shopper and